SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 astronomical print is written 75 c

is written 75 c

7/9 life size)

making it feel itself rather like a veil

and would be inclined to see that both figures see equal time in the sun

SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 astronomical print is written 75 cI've had a couple of these, but it's been a long time they seem to have become harder and harder to find, and more and more precious. Happily I found two on a recent trip to Pennsylvania, listed individually today. Produced by some makers of magic lantern slides, these mechanical devices were called chromotropes, producing kaleidoscopic effects via two painted glass slides, one of them rotating when one turns the handle; low tech magic! I tried to